Callicebus Bernhardi

24 Neotropical Primates 10(Suppl.), June 2002 Neotropical Primates 10(Suppl.), June 2002 25 town of Parintins, forming an enclave population in agouti to entirely blackish, often intermixed with buff and the interfl uve delineated by the lower Rio Uíra-Curupá gray hairs. and lower Rio Andirá. M. G. M. van Roosmalen also observed populations of entirely pale yellowish to Distinguished from C. cinerascens and C. hoffmannsi almost white color morphs of Callicebus hoffmannsi by uniformly reddish or reddish brown sideburns, and along the Rio Mamurú, one river further to the east, underparts and inner surface of limbs; from C. bernhardi and classic yellowish-white and gray Callicebus hoffmannsi by lack of white ear tufts, white cheiridia and white tail tip; on both banks of the middle and upper Rio Andirá from C. moloch by dark brownish or grayish agouti upper (Fig. 24). These observations confi rm the parapatry of and outer parts of trunk, limbs, crown and forehead, reddish Callicebus hoffmannsi and C. baptista, and therefore they or reddish brown instead of bright orange sideburns, and are elevated to full species here, whereas Hershkovitz lacking the buffy upper surface of the cheiridia and buffy (1990) considers them subspecies of Callicebus hoffmannsi pencilled tip of tail (Fig. 25). (Figs. 1, 2, and 24). Diagnostic characters: Sideburns, under parts, and inner side of limbs bright to dark reddish, or reddish brown Callicebus bernhardi new species (saturate pheomelanin); upper and outer surface of head, trunk, and limbs grayish to blackish agouti; forehead like crown, whitish ear tufts lacking; tail dominantly blackish a Holotype: Complete adult skeleton and skull of unknown sex, found on the forest fl oor. The specimen apparently died from natural causes and was collected by M. G. M. van Roosmalen in November 1998. It was deposited as INPA no. 3929 in the Mammal Collection of the National Institute for Amazon Research (INPA), b Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil. Paratypes: In 1996, two juvenile males were obtained alive along the Rio Mariepauá at Santa Cruz, not far from its confl uence with the Rio Madeira, and were kept in M. G. M. van Roosmalen’s Breeding Center for Endangered Amazonian Monkeys in Manaus, Brazil. They died in April and August 2001 and are deposited as INPA no. 4029 and INPA no. 4033, respectively, in the Mammal c Collection of the National Institute for Amazon Research (INPA), Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil. Type locality: West bank of the lower Rio Aripuanã, at the edge of the settlement of Nova Olinda, 41 km southwest of the town of Novo Aripuanã, Amazonas state, Brazil. This region is located in south-central Amazonia, south of Rio Amazonas and east of Rio Madeira. Coordinates for the type locality are: 05°30’63”S, 60°24’61”W. Altitude 45 m. (Fig. 26). Figure 25. The Baptista Lake titi monkey, Callicebus baptista Geographic distribution: Interfl uve delineated by the Lönnberg, 1939. A skin obtained from the left bank of the Rio Rios Madeira-Jí-Paraná and Rios Aripuanã-Roosevelt, Uíra-Curapá, a right bank affl uent of the Rio Amazonas: a. whole skin, b. crown and nape, c. tail on the background of the dorsum. in the states of Amazonas and Rondônia, Brazil. In In the private collection of M. G. M. van Roosmalen (MGMR Rondônia, the species is parapatric in the west with 50). Photographs by M. G. M. van Roosmalen. C. brunneus along the entire Rio Jí-Paraná, and in the east 24 Neotropical Primates 10(Suppl.), June 2002 Neotropical Primates 10(Suppl.), June 2002 25 Figure 26. Collecting localities for Callicebus bernhardi new species. with C. cinerascens along the Rio Roosevelt; in Amazonas, the species is parapatric with C. dubius in the west along the middle Rio Madeira, and with C. cinerascens in the east along the Rio Aripuanã (Figs. 1 and 2). Ferrari et al. (1996) observed a grey titi monkey at Pimenta Bueno in Rondônia, on the west bank of the Rio Ji-Paraná. They noted that it was not the distinctively brown-colored C. brunneus and were unable to identify it. It may have been C. bernhardi, which would extend its range a little to the west across the upper the Rio Ji-Paraná, but this requires confirmation. This species has been observed in the wild by M.G.M. van Roosmalen at the following localities: west bank of lower Rio Aripuanã, Nova Olinda, Amazonas state, 05°30’01”S, 60°24’27.4”W; west bank of lower Rio Aripuanã, Monte Alegre, Reserva Florestal Getal, 05°34’68”S, 60°23’40”W; Figure 27. Prince Bernhard’s titi monkey, Callicebus bernhardi west bank of lower Rio Aripuanã, Novo Oriente new species. The adult male paratype INPA 4033 from the Rio (Capimtuba), 05°43’41”S, 60°17’09”W; east bank of Mariepauá, affluent of the Rio Madeira, in 1998. Photographs by middle Rio Madeira, seringal São Luis, ca. 5 km south of M. G. M. van Roosmalen. the town of Manicoré, 05°50’28”S, 61°18’19”W, altitude 45 m. limbs, chest, and belly, and tail with white pencil; from Diagnostic characters: Upper and outer surface of head, C. brunneus by grayish instead of dark brown to black trunk, and limbs grayish black, on the back mixed with forehead and crown, and dark orange sideburns, inner brownish agouti or red-brown; forehead not defined sides of limbs, chest, and belly; from C. hoffmannsi and from crown, grayish black to gray; ears black with C. baptista by strikingly contrasting white ear tufts, conspicuous whitish tufts; sideburns, under parts of body, cheiridia and tip of the tail (pencil); from C. moloch and inner side of limbs sharply contrasted dark orange; by grayish forehead and crown, white ear tufts, and cheiridia sharply contrasted white against grayish black blackish tail with a distinct white pencil; from C. dubius lower limbs; tail black except for a sharply contrasted by lack of black vibrissae and white blaze (Figs. 27, white pencil. 30–34). Distinguished from C. cinerascens by uniformly dark External characters of holotype: Forehead, crown, sides of orange instead of grayish sideburns and inner sides of body, and outer sides of limbs grayish; rump, mid-dorsum, 26 Neotropical Primates 10(Suppl.), June 2002 Neotropical Primates 10(Suppl.), June 2002 27 back, and nape grayish mixed with brownish agouti to grayish forehead and crown; tail ca. 55 cm long, the distal reddish brown, the hairs 5 cm long, with 5 blackish bands 7 cm forming a white pencil (Table 2). alternating with 4 narrow brownish agouti to red-brown ones, the most proximal (2 cm long) and the distal one (tip) Cranial measurements: See Table 3 and Figures 28 black; face black with some white hairs around mouth and and 29. nostrils; ears black with white tufts contrasted with light Habitat: Titi monkeys of the cupreus and moloch Group essentially are secondary and disturbed forest specialists. The various groups of C. bernhardi observed in the wild by M. G. M. van Roosmalen were invariably in naturally or anthropogenically disturbed forest, such as blow- downs (large patches of secondary forest after massive deforestation caused by dramatic rainstorm events), liana forest on abandoned terras pretas, secondary forest surrounding plantations and fields, and so-called seringais, an early form of agroforestry, in which areas of high riverbank forests along Amazonian white-water rivers were turned into productive multi-species forests. These forests are rich in a number of commercially valuable and edible fruit-producing native trees, including rubber (Hevea brasiliensis), Brazil nut (Bertholletia excelsa), wild cocoa (Theobroma spp.), ‘bacurí’ (Rheedia spp., Platonia insignis), ‘ingá’ (Inga spp.), ‘taperebá’ (Spondias mombin), ‘biribá’ (Rollinia squamosa), ‘soursop’ (Annona spp.), and a number of tree species belonging to the sapotilla family (Sapotaceae) and palms (Palmae or Arecaceae). These seringais seem to �� Figure 28. Skull and mandible of the adult (unknown sex) �� holotype of Callicebus bernhardi (INPA 3929). Photographs by �� M. G. M. van Roosmalen. 26 Neotropical Primates 10(Suppl.), June 2002 Neotropical Primates 10(Suppl.), June 2002 27 offer optimal habitat and a year-round food supply for titi conservation. In particular, the authors are grateful to him monkeys, marmosets, tamarins, and night monkeys. The for having created the Order of the Golden Ark, a highly highest densities of titi monkeys of the cupreus and moloch prestigious award, equivalent to knighthood, which is Group can be found in these seringais, if the local people do presented every year to a select group of conservationists not hunt them. Often before dawn in the early morning, from around the world. Two of the authors (RAM in 1995; all pairs living in the area can be heard performing duet MGMR in 1997) have been thus honored and are naming calls and, therefore, local densities of titis can be easily this new titi as a small token of their appreciation. estimated. Vernacular name: This titi monkey is referred to as zog-zog Origin of the name: This titi monkey is named in honor or zogue-zogue by the local people. For an English name, we of His Royal Highness Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands, suggest Prince Bernhard’s titi monkey. who for half a century has been a global leader in nature a b c Figure 30. Dorsal views of the adult male paratype of Callicebus Figure 29. Skull and mandible of the adult male paratype of bernhardi (INPA 4029): a. crown, forearms and hands, b. close Callicebus bernhardi (INPA 4029). Photographs by M. G. M. up of hairs of the nape, and c. close up of the hairs of the mid- van Roosmalen. dorsum. Photographs by M.

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